Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-06-02
GENERAL.

houses were destroyed by FIRE.
In the ten-mile bicycle race at Birming-
ham. Eng, on the 23d between Woonside, OF
America, and Howell, of England, the lat
ter won by ten yards. The finish was close
and exciting; time, 80 minutes 85 seconds.
EDITOR O'BRIEN was again attacked by a
mob at Hamilton, Ont, on the 23d. The
driver of the carriage, John Nelson, was
shot in the wrist. The meeting denouncing
Lord Lansdowne was successfully held.
A RECENT dispatch from Calcutta says a
Sepoy had shot ten persons and committed
suicide
THE Cambridge (England) University
crew have agreed to row the Harvard Col
lege crew if the necessary funds to cover
the expenses Of the trip to America can be
raised.
CANON FLEMING, of England, accused of
plagiarism by the Pan Mall Gazette writes
that paper that the use of part of SER
mon delivered by DR.. Talmage. of Brook
Ign, in volume of sermons published by
the Canon was an act of inadvertence On
his part
THE Belgian ironworkers affiliated with
the Knights of Labor have Joined the
strikers. Riots have occurred in various
districts. The mobs displayed black and
red flags. A plot has been discovered to
attack and pillage Charleroi. 1t is rumored
that the strikers used dynamite at Haine,
st. Pierre and Paturagcs.
THE anniversary of the battles of 1870
around Metz will be celebrated this year
with unusual eclat.
THE Berlin Court of Appeals has con-
frmed the sentence of four weeks impris-
onment imposed on the journalists Zornow
and Emil Barth for publishing the rumors
that the Gar had killed Lieutenant Viii
laume.
THE agitation in the island of Crete has
assumed a political character.
MERRY HAMPTON won the English Derby.
Baron was second and Marley third.
FOREIGN bondholders, it IS reported, in
tend to bring suit against Jay Gould and
Russell Sage for s., 600, 600. They had an
agent present at recent examinations be-
fore the Pacific Investigating Committee,
and from admissions by witnesses con-
firmation was obtained of suspicious Of
irregularities by which they claim they
were defrauded
THE Opera Comique, Paris, took fire dur
ing the performance on the night of the
18th, resulting in terrible loss of life. 1t
was reported that sixty lives were lost,
about twenty being performers and four
firemen.
THE French Senate has agreed to a ten
franc surtaX on sugar.
THE great cotton mill of Parent & Le-
maire at Roubaix, France, was destroyed
by fire recently.
THE Papal Nuncio to Vienna declares
that a reconciliation between the Vatican
and the Italian Government is only a mat
ter of time.
THE British chambers of commerce and
commercial associations protest against the
new Canadian duties on iron and steel.
MGR. PALLoTTE and Father Bausau were
made Cardinals at the recent Papal Con-
sistory.
THE Dublin Express, Conservative, ac-
cuses Parnell of coercing one of his Avon
dale tenants and refusing to make any re-
duction in rent.
A RECEPTION was rendered to Lord Lans-
downe on his return home to Ottawa, Ont.
on the 9th. Many of the houses were dec
GRATED. In returning thanks, Lord Lans-
downe spoke of the O'Brien campaign
against himself. The same day, at Mont
real, O'Brien addressed large audience,
accusing the Governor Generals adherents
of seeking his assassination.
THE burning of the Theater Comique at
Paris proved more disastrous than as first
reported. Over two hundred lives were
lost, the dead being found in heaps. The
unfortunate ballet suffered most, many of
the girls losing their lives.
SIXTY villas were burned by an incen-
diary fire near st. Petersburg, Russia, re-
Gently. The loss amounted to several mil
lion roubles.
A PLOT to assassinate the Sultan of Tur
key was discovered recently. Extraordn.
airy efforts were made to conceal the dis
covery from the public. The effect of the
plot on the Sultan was visible in the terror
he exhibited.